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Maze Ransomware
On April 18th 2020, Cognizant has been hit with maze ransomware. Maze ransomware has been more active since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. In Last 3 months more than 10 cyber attacks known to have maze ransomware part of it.
What does it mean when a password a long series of random numbers and letters?
This means the password was published as “hashed”
How does it protect my business ?
Our service is designed to help both public and private sector organizations detect and mitigate cyber threats that leverage stolen email addresses and passwords. Dark Web ID leverages a combination of human and artificial intelligence that scours botnets, criminal chat rooms, blogs, Websites and bulletin boards, Peer to Peer networks, forums, private networks, and other blackmarket sites 24/7, 365 days a year to identify stolen credentials and other personally identifiable information (PII).
Can I track personal email accounts for compromises?
We allow for up to 5 personal email addresses per organization to be tracked, in addition to all emails on the company domain.
I'm seeing multiple users with the same password being exposed on the same day, What does that mean?
In most cases, someone is testing a password against a series of users to gain access.
What is the Dark Web
The Dark Web is a hidden universe contained within the “Deep Web”- a sublayer of the Internet that is hidden from conventional search engines. Search engines like Google, BING and Yahoo only search .04% of the indexed or “surface” Internet. The other 99.96% of the Web consists of databases, private academic and government networks, and the Dark Web. The Dark Web is estimated at 550 times larger than the surface Web and growing. Because you can operate anonymously, the Dark Web holds a wealth of stolen data and illegal activity.
Is it safe to say cloud storage is a serious concern for Data breach? With most of our software tools moving to Cloud hosting, Does this create more risk for my company's IP?
There can be as much risk to your data within a Cloud environment as there is when it resides locally within your own servers.
Are there any special credentials needed to investigate the Dark Web?
You do not need special permission to access the deep or Dark Web.